by Tuesday

• prospecti
  • ✔ find 8+ (13) print sources
    • ✔ 10+ pp each
    • ✔ at least 4 from peer-reviewed journals (as opposed to a collection of essays or a single-authored book)
  • ✔ read 8+ (13) print sources
    • T. S. Eliot’s Head and Heart
    • Eliot Without Tears
    • T. S. Eliot: The Performativity of Gender in The Waste Land
    • The Grin of Tiresias: Humor in The Waste Land
    • The Waste Land and the Fantasy of Interpretation
    • Psychopathological Antecedents and Transformations
    • The Poet in the Poem
    • A Poem of Memory and Desire
    • T. S. Eliot’s Personal Waste Land
    • T. S. Eliot and American Philosophy
    • BioCritiques T. S. Eliot
    • The Waste Land: An Analysis (Cleanth, Norton)
    • On Tradition and the Individual Talent
  • ✔ describe and evaluate each scholar's use of evidence in making his/her argument
    • Psychopathological Antecedents and Transformations
    • T. S. Eliot: The Performativity of Gender in The Waste Land
    • The Waste Land and the Fantasy of Interpretation
    • Eliot Without Tears
    • The Grin of Tiresias: Humor in The Waste Land
    • T. S. Eliot’s Head and Heart
    • T. S. Eliot’s Personal Waste Land
    • BioCritiques T. S. Eliot
    • The Waste Land: An Analysis (Cleanth, Norton)
    • On Tradition and the Individual Talent
  • ✔ separate works cited page
  • ✔ 12 pt, double space, 1" margins, number all pages
  • ✔ thesis at the close of 1st paragraph--underline it, 1,250+ words
  • ✔ in subsequent paragraphs, indicate how you will develop your thesis in the final paper
    • ✔ how will you use various sources to support the assertion being made in your thesis?
  • A couple of last minute reminders about this assignment. Recall that in the Prospectus, you are formulating an argument borrowed or revised from critics' arguments. (You have surveyed the criticism, and are describing the consensus of critical opinion with respect to a particular thematic or formal issue.) Therefore, you might want your argument to read something like, "Critical opinion has agreed that Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, expresses racist and sexist attitudes, but most critics agree that the novel should continue to be read as long as these attitudes are acknowledged and discussed."
  • ✔ Present the critics in the order of greatest to least importance to your argument.
  • ✔ Circle the "to be" verbs in the final draft of the paper.
  • ✔ Follow MLA citation style in using ( ) citations and in creating the Works Cited page.
  • Proofread, proofread, proofread.
• ✔ raise virtual teen (Mon)
• ✔ writing assignment #6 (Mon)
• ✔ read Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
• ✔ read "Tradition"
• ✔ read "Jazz"
• read “Introduction” to Langston Hughes
• read poems by Langston Hughes (CP)
• read “The Harlem Renaissance 1919-1940”
• read Lang. articles
• defensive driving
• ✔ register for the GRE